[Wayne Waag]

If they’re on something like YouTube or Vimeo, there are lots of free downloaders. I use one called ClipGrab. Just paste in the URL and begin the download directly to your hard drive.

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[Wayne Waag]

Open file explorer and see exactly which date you are using. It sounds like you’re using “Date Created”. If that’s the case, the date of the original file creation will remain. For the latest, you want “Date Modified”. In fact, you can add them both just to see if that’s the problem.

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[Wayne Waag]

Glad I could help. BTW–the easiest 6-pack I ever earned.

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[Wayne Waag]

Before thinking that you need a special script, first go to the Edit Details window (Alt-6). Then select markers or regions. There you will find pretty much everything you want. Just make sure that you set your time format to Absolute Frames. The edit details window can be copied and the results pasted into Excel if you want to manipulate these entries in some specific way. As an aside you can also paste data into these windows thus allowing you to create markers at regions at specific times, lengths, etc. The edit details window can be extremely useful and is well worth your time to learn its many uses.

At this point, you’re up to 3 beers! LOL.

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[Wayne Waag]

Try this. Once the script runs, just hit M and the marker with text box will appear.

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Sony.Vegas;

class EntryPoint
{
public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
{

try
{
var cursorPos = vegas.Cursor;

foreach (var track in vegas.Project.Tracks)
{
foreach (var ve in track.Events)
{
if (ve.Start <= vegas.Transport.CursorPosition && ve.End >= vegas.Transport.CursorPosition)
{
ve.Selected = true;
}
else
{
ve.Selected = false;
}
if (ve.Selected)
{
ve.Start = cursorPos;
}
}
}
vegas.UpdateUI();
}

catch (Exception e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message);
}
}

}

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[Wayne Waag]

@jr

You just beat me to it.

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Sony.Vegas;

class EntryPoint
{
public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
{
try
{
var cursorPos = vegas.Cursor;

foreach (var track in vegas.Project.Tracks)
{
foreach (var ve in track.Events)
{
if (ve.Selected)
{
ve.Start = cursorPos;
}
}
}
vegas.UpdateUI();
}

catch (Exception e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message);
}
}
}

Just save as a text file with a .cs extension and place in your script folder.

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[Wayne Waag]

+1 for Steve’s approach.

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[Wayne Waag]

Another option that I use quite often is to create a 1920 x 1080 transparent new image in Photoshop (you can use any other graphic editor), import the graphic as a new layer and position it near its final location or even center–it really doesn’t matter. Then save as a png and import into Vegas. Then you can move the image anywhere you want without having to scale it inside of Vegas. This approach is pretty simple and better quality since you’ve avoided scaling in Vegas altogether.

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[Wayne Waag]

The problem with iPhone footage is that, out of the box, it records using variable frame rates. Since Vegas expects constant frame rate footage, it just doesn’t work. There are apps available which solve this problem, including Filmic Pro, which comes highly recommended. However, for footage already captured, the use of Handbrake suggested by George is probably your best bet if you want to use Vegas. Or, you can abandon your PC altogether and stay with Apple products as JR suggested.

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[Wayne Waag]

Handbrake is a stand-alone encoder, considered by many (including me) to be much better than those within Vegas. It is based on the x264 encoder that is used by many commercial applications. There is a Vegas-to-Handbrake 1-click script that makes encoding very easy directly from the Vegas timeline although it does take some time to set it up. Here is the link.

https://www.vegasvideo.de/vegas-2-handbrake-en

Handbrake primarily supports AVC with options for both CPU only and Quick-sync encoding. Although, it does support MPEG-2, it is not very good. For high quality MPEG-2 encodes, I would suggest you try the now very old Procoder (if you can find it) or the current TMPGEnc’s Mastering Works 6 which can also be used in conjunction with the Debugmode Frameserver (also needed for the above 1-click script). For MPEG-2 SD encodes, one of the best is CCE Basic, also so longer available. I have never been a fan of the MainConcept encoder. If you do a search, you will find lots of threads detailing some of the problems that have been reported over the years. In any case, good luck.

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